![]() ![]() This year’s event promises new wagons (with new seating options), updated effects and new horror scenes. The premise: A witch has summoned creatures that’ve hidden themselves among Halloween decorations in the town’s foothills. The Old Zoo tradition, which has been running for 15 years now, centers on a relatively lengthy hayride, which runs on select nights from September 22 to October 31. This haunted Griffith Park hayride once again returns to the mid-’80s fictitious town of Midnight Falls, which borrows a little bit of the road culture of Sons of Anarchy and the isolation of Twin Peaks. Like Enchanted, the music is moody (but not spooky or scary this is definitely made for families) and the installations are artfully assembled: Sure, they could’ve just There are a few familiar sights if you’ve ever attended Descanso’s other holiday tradition, Enchanted, but tweaked for Halloween (stomp along the trunk-encircling platforms in the oak grove and you’ll hear shrill cackles instead of sparkly sounds). Meanwhile, there’s a pavilion in the rose garden with real ones whose designs are inspired by pop culture characters (plus a station where you can see them being carved). The first is a forested section lined with expressively carved (but fake) pumpkins, some of which have been arranged into wonderfully whimsical characters (a crow-like scarecrow and a pumpkin holding its own head, among them). You’ll find two main areas of jack-o’-lanterns. Stroll through a mile-long trail filled with all things pumpkins, including an illuminated forest of jack-o’-lanterns, during Descanso Gardens’ annual Carved.įor three weeks this fall (Oct 6–29), the event lines a loop of the botanical garden with pumpkins in all sorts of forms: as a sea monster rising from a pond, in thick clusters on ground and cobbled together into a house.įor the 2023 edition, Carved has slightly reconfigured the route, with an expanded Día de los Muertos ofrenda altar near the entrance (you can leave your own remembrance photo) and a new, larger area for the neon-hued tangle of the Rhizome installation.
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